Exposing Attacks on Democracy
As demographic changes put non-Hispanic white Americans on the verge of being a minority in the U.S., our country faces historic attacks against the very existence of a multiracial democracy. Our deep, data-driven investigative reporting about voting rights, immigration, the criminal justice system, and the powerful interests behind government decisions draws on the context of history to confront society’s ongoing failure to live up to the promise of “equal protection under the law” and “one person, one vote.”
BY THE NUMBERS
26
The number of U.S. states that have made access to voting and political representation less equal following the 2020 election.
4.6M
The number of U.S. citizens prohibited from voting in the 2022 midterm elections due to felony disenfranchisement laws with explicitly racist roots.
1,000
The number of public records requests Public Integrity filed to show how lawmakers closed polling places in primarily Black and Latino communities.
IN-DEPTH investigations
How Republicans flipped America’s state supreme courts
In 2018, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution included a right to abortion, finding that “nothing could be more fundamental to the notion of liberty.” Just four years later, the court reversed itself. Iowa’s constitution does not, the justices decided, guarantee a right to abortion after all. That 2018 ruling? It had…
Redistricting: Tribes fight for an equal voice
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Copy, Paste, Legislate
MORE ON DEMOCRACY
New anti-protest laws cast a long shadow on First Amendment rights
How a Jim Crow-era strategy blocked 4.6 million people from voting in 2022
How we documented inequity in access to voting
White House initiative leaves deported veterans in limbo
As guest workers increase, so do concerns about wage cheating
Indigenous journalists make way for sunshine
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OUR IMPACT
Center for Public Integrity, USA TODAY & Arizona Republic win 2020 Goldsmith Award
The Center for Public Integrity’s “Copy, Paste, Legislate” series, which revealed how special interest groups and lobbyists introduce “copycat legislation” across all 50 states, has won the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Public Integrity shares this…
Keep readingNew DHS policy protects undocumented whistleblowers
Undocumented immigrants enduring abuses from employers such as wage theft, safety infractions and gender discrimination can now obtain deportation relief when they report workplace violations to a government agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced. The new policy…
Keep readingPublic Integrity acquires tool to make data more accessible to journalists
The Center for Public Integrity will steward and grow a powerful tool that puts public records at the fingertips of journalists across the country, thanks to support from the Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Accountability Project,…
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